CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 08/12
CBS Evening News
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3.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
On tonight's CBS Evening News podcast -- more on the increasingly-dire situation in Afghanistan. With two thirds of the country under Taliban control and more cities falling -- how long can the Afghan government hold on as US troops head to the country to evacuate Americans quickly.
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| 0:31.0 | Tonight, U.S. troops back to Afghanistan. |
| 0:34.1 | With the Taliban advancing and security crumbling, the president sends thousands of troops to Afghanistan to move personnel out of the U.S. Embassy. |
| 0:42.3 | This is not abandonment. This is not an evacuation. This is not the wholesale withdrawal. |
| 0:50.3 | Can the U.S. embassy stay open? How long can the Afghan government hold on? |
| 0:56.0 | COVID summer surge. U.S. cases are now increasing faster than anywhere else in the world. Medical staffs exhausted and frustrated. |
| 1:04.2 | It's just people dying who don't need to die. |
| 1:06.4 | Hundreds of students quarantined just days into the school year. |
| 1:14.8 | Life-threatening heat, 150 million Americans under heat alerts. |
| 1:18.5 | A high school football player collapses and dies in Nebraska. |
| 1:21.7 | Plus, the latest on the storm gathering strength in the Caribbean. |
| 1:23.8 | When will it hit the U.S.? Portrait of America. |
| 1:26.2 | Less white, more diverse, what the census report tells us about our country and how changing demographics influence our politics. |
| 1:34.6 | Cycle of violence, an officer killed, two suspects arrested. |
| 1:39.3 | Did Eric give you any indication of what that gun was going to be used for? |
| 1:43.4 | Tonight we speak with a man charged with supplying the gun. |
| 1:47.6 | And it's not heaven? It's Iowa. |
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